For the current Catholicos of India, see Catholicos Baselios Thomas I. For List of Maphrian's, see List of maphrians.
Catholicos of India
Bishopric
Syriac Orthodox Church
Incumbent: Baselios Thomas I 26 July 2002
Style
Aboon Mor His Beatitude the Catholicos
Location
Country
India
Headquarters
Patriarch Ignatius Zaka I Iwas Centre, Kerala, India
Information
Denomination
Malankara Jacobite Syriac Orthodox Church
Sui iuris church
Malankara Jacobite Syriac Orthodox Church
Rite
Antiochene Syriac Rite
Established
Syriac Orthodox Church (1964)
Diocese
Catholicate See[1] Jacobite Syrian Christian Church
Cathedral
Mar Athanasius Cathedral
Patron father
Saint Thomas
Current leadership
Coadjutor
Malankara Metropolitan Joseph Gregorios
Website
www.jscnews.org
The Catholicos of India[2][3] also known as the Catholicos of the East,[4] is an ecclesiastical office within the Syriac Orthodox Church. He is the Catholicos, spiritual leader and regional head[5][1] of the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church, an Indian archdiocese of the Syriac Orthodox Church, functioning within the Church at an ecclesiastical-rank second to the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch,[4] and his name is commemorated in liturgy throughout the Syriac Orthodox Archdioceses in India. The position was renamed as Catholicos of India[3] in 2002, in accordance with its actual jurisdiction.[6]
The current Catholicos of India is Baselios Thomas I, who was consecrated in 2002.[7]
^ abConstitution (1998).
^"Jacobite Syrian Christian Church". JSC News- Official News Portal of the Church. Archived from the original on 10 June 2015. Retrieved 26 June 2021. In the Malankara Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church, the Patriarch of Antioch & all the East is the spiritual supreme, but the temporal powers of the local Church in India rests with an association, elected from among the representatives of Parishes of Malankara, and is to be administered under guidance from its Chief prelate, the Catholicos of India.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^ ab"Patriarch Zakka I: The SOC At a Glance". syriacorthodoxresources.org. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
^ abSOC (1998). Syriac Orthodox Church Constitution. His Beatitude The Catholicos ranks second after the Patriarch within the Syrian Orthodox Church hierarchy. He is elected only by the Metropolitans under the jurisdiction of the Catholicate See. They must obey him, so must the priests, deacons and all the people within the Syrian Orthodox Archdioceses in India. At his ordination, he is proclaimed: Mor Baselius... (his personal name is added here). His name shall be proclaimed throughout the archdioceses in India during the Holy Mass and canonical prayers, after the name of the Patriarch and preceding the name of the Archdiocese Metropolitan. His name should be mentioned also at every Syrian church where he attends prayer. His title is: His Beatitude Mor Baselius... Catholicos of the East and Metropolitan of Malankara.
^"India – Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch". syrianorthodoxchurch.org. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
^"Catholicate of the East". syriacchristianity.info. Retrieved 26 June 2021. In 2002 the office of the Maphrianate was renamed 'Catholicos of India' in accordance with its actual jurisdiction
^"Catholicos Baselios Thomas I vests the new metropolitan trustee Joseph Mar Gregorios with the symbol of the post at Puthenkurisu on Wednesday. H. Vibhu". The Hindu. 28 August 2019.
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